Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Boston not many miles from where his paternal ancestors disembarked from the Mayflower he met death following an operation for a tumor which had been removed 17 years ago and had regrown involving the bone of his skull. He was buried with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery alongside the graves of the "Rough Riders," heroic young fighters whom Theodore Roosevelt had asked him to command in the Cuban campaigns...
...According to despatches, a Philadelphian, to show his friend how the moot blow landed, pinched his friend quickly on stomach and chin. The friend toppled, fractured his skull, died...
...less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever persuade him to drive a racing car? Answer: Only a heroine with an entrancing figure, like Cinemactress Barbara...
Apparently it is never possible to drive through the skull of the average undergraduate the fact-that what he does is in a large measure responsible for the opinion of Columbia which his intimates and those with whom he comes in contact form. The connection seems too distant and abstract for him to realize...
...possession of the Psychical Research Society, a rather playful group of scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...